A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

msps Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.4 13.9 0 0 0 31 0
Number of occurrences3027 0 0 0 3 0
Number of authors14 13 1

Occurrences of msps in Corpus

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Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
www.scottish.parliament.uk/msps/cpg/cpg-scots.html on page 2

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
eport concludit "...that most MSPs can be expected to understand on page 121

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
ent gin they cuid find eneuch MSPs wi the gumption?
1 matches

Peffers, Bob The Pittin Doon o Guid Scots, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
inge it fir oor Inglis spakin MSPs. Syne they dinna gie me the L
1 matches

Peffers, Bob Whit Aboot Ma Ceevil Richts?, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, poetry
Wi MSPs, (at our ain midden),
Nou MSPs ye maun tak tent.
Nou MSPs ye maun tak tent.
Nou MSPs ye maun tak tent.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
e, haed duin whan they speirt MSPs tae adopt a Scots word tae ui
rd tae uise an she said maist MSPs wis fair impressed wi it an a
ment an pit intae the heids o MSPs an hamelt Scots speakers the
3 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 63 - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ad oor poetry, spakken wi oor MSPs, eddicationists an academics.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
frae the MSPs o the three unionist pairties
1 matches

Harper, Emma Promoting the Scots Leid, (The Scottish Parliament 2021) Central - Stranraer, government
kers; forbye encourages futur MSPs tae ettle at heizin up the le
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ters sae thare wis a nummer o MSPs that wad hiv been at the forg
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ervice in Scots. Efter aw, if MSPs can gie thair vows in the Sco
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
he day. But acause the feck o MSPs speaksna Scots, an acause the
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Puchowski, James Frae Norrowa ower the faem, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
he Na vote i 2014. The feck o MSPs is memmers o pairties that op
civic pro-independence Green MSPs wull dae jist thon. They are
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Puchowski, James Aiths an Affirmations, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
The MSPs eleckit tae the fift Scots Pa
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McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
on. They hae lost sum daicent MSPs, sic as Jim Eadie, an micht f
y come oot wi the ae nummer o MSPs as they did efter their slauc
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Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
s his ane, an a front binch o MSPs maistly ful o ither Blairites
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
l cost is £280 million. Mony MSPs hae been concerned aboot thes
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Kay, Billy Time for Reflection, (archive2021.parliament.scot 2022) Central, government
It is mibbe even haurder fur MSPs, fur ye cannae jist be yersel
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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
e Scottish Water via ae o the MSPs..., daes yer consteetuent mea(2020) search twitter

@billykayscot tweeted
h Nationalist/Unionist MPs an MSPs - they’re only in it for th(2020) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
pean @EmmaHarperMSP A wheen o MSPs took pairt in the @IYIL2019 d(2020) search twitter
fir views. There's a wheen o MSPs aa fir it includin @EmmaHarpe(2020) search twitter
@LairnScots An there are MSPs whae hae made speeches in Sco(2020) search twitter